Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a6b50c3d827b894…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-13 01:05:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a8f6d07025e3045f83164755d3543773 SHA-1: f2777215f4956b092c9db6fe304af90e14f81e63 SHA-256: 8a6b50c3d827b8941baf22e03e38a5a80e5aed24d3bd27c8470340f348201dae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' confirms the nature of the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://jadeite.ru/images/file/34514879890.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pcserviszlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31380041100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanobubblevietnam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/kakuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--rssx31a7tec6p.com/upload/userfiles/files/20210908151841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f2351e339154aa49f2582f5b832c647/putigevujerokesobufoxuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/powatesebotaburadisuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shbaicun.com/userfiles/file/2021090508474473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitabrasive.com/editor_up/mavafuzakivogexetukosavag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135caffe438b---gadof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seedcambodia.org/htdocs/cljr/data/files/zurazavuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iswii.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49571010693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tabletopad.com/images/file/75828168393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/raviwulorijuvapelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138db6a1f419---80521512176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto4-spb.ru/public/images/ckfinder/files/vuwenulajawejiloserunaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessincasey.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22563876872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erisalaw-chicago.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/biboporo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.vn/user-/files/75188743486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vertex-decor.com/userfiles/file/dugorokabutasovafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsnpharma.com/upload/files/8076555554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parzenica-bialka.pl/userfiles/files/10167485883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnkingdee.cn/Files/file/202196125249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=channing+tatum+gi+joe+2PDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dca1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCA1 21808 bytes
SHA-256: 2199a7f68731ade07df03779c001d14a2f7f50dabe90d689a52ae0cff5858091
font_01_sfnt_off0001154e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1154E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D65 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 976665d163f78fdf6cd610ce3614d242423a3ead4cb43ce59a22116b8ebf25c9